touciño

Galician

touciño

Alternative forms

• toucín (northeastern Galicia)
• toucinho (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese toucinho, from a substrate pre-Latin language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Cognate with Portuguese toucinho and Spanish tocino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /towˈθiɲo̝/, (western) /towˈsiɲo̝/

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Noun

touciño m (plural touciños)

1. lard, bacon
   • 1351, M. Lucas Alvarez, M. e P. P. Lucas Dominguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 506:

     de pan branco e de vino e meo duun boo touçino

     of wheat bread, and of wine, and half a good piece of bacon

Related terms

• touca (“cloth”)

References

• “touçi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “touciño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “touciño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “touciño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.